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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?
(a) It is the day when his daughter's suitor brings palm-wine to her parents and her entire group of kinsmen, umunna. Everyone is invited, but the central figures are the bride and her mother.
(b) It is the day his daughter will practice for the wedding ceremony, followed by a celebration.
(c) It is the day his daughter's suitor will pay the bride-price and everyone will celebrate.
(d) It is the day his daughtor's suitor brings the whole neighborhood to see the hut where he and his bride will be living.

2. What do the people of Umuofia fear in the night?
(a) Kidnappers looking for children to sell as slaves.
(b) Rogue warriors from Mbaino.
(c) Evil spirits, dangerous animals, and snakes.
(d) Bandits in search of money and food.

3. Ekwefi awakes Okonkwo early in the morning pounding on his door. What is she anxious to tell him?
(a) The yam fields are on fire.
(b) Nwoye's mother is sick and calling for him.
(c) Their daughter, Ezinma is sick and dying.
(d) All the men of the village are to meet in the marketplace immediately.

4. What hopes does Okonkwo have for his son, Nwoye's , future?
(a) He wants Nwoye to be prosperous, that he will have enough to feed the ancestors with regular sacrifices, and he will be able to rule his women and children.
(b) He wants Nwoye to be a great warrior with many heroic victories to his name.
(c) He hopes Nwoye would be a fair, just, and wise father and husband, showing kindness and love to his family.
(d) He wants Nwoye to be a talented musician, performing at all the festivals in the nine villages.

5. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) Their heads are shaved in beautiful patterns.
(b) They are washed in the riverbed three times the day before the festival, and then dressed in simple robes.
(c) Their bodies are rubbed with palm oil, and their hair is decorated with kola nut shells.
(d) Their entire bodies are painted with cam wood and no clothing is worn to the festival.

6. Who appears in front of Ekwefi as she waits tearfully outside Agbala's cave?
(a) Okonkwo
(b) Chielo
(c) Nwoye's mother
(d) Nwoye

7. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?
(a) She grounds kola nuts and bananas together, forming a paste to put on Ezinma's tongue.
(b) She boiled a hen, added yams and nuts to make a medicinal broth for Ezinma to drink.
(c) She mixes palm-wine and red clay into a medicinal mud and rubs it on Ezinma's face and chest.
(d) She puts a pot on the fire, adding medicinal plants, grasses, leaves, roots and barks. She brought them to a boil being careful that it didn't boil over and lose its power.

8. How many men are in each of the two teams of wrestlers who face each other in the wrestling ring?
(a) Six men on each side
(b) Nine men on each side
(c) Five men on each side
(d) Twelve men on each side

9. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife
(b) Noywe's mother
(c) Chielo, a widow with two children
(d) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo

10. Okonkwo is very prosperous, owning a large compound with many huts, and an abundance of food. Ikemefuna is given to Okonkwo to live with him until the clan decides Ikemefuna's fate. How does Ikemefuna react to living with Okonkwo?
(a) He is afraid and does not understand the circumstances.
(b) He is pleased to be living with such a powerful, wealthy man.
(c) He hopes to learn how to become a great farmer and warrior from Okonkwo.
(d) He is thankful that he will never be hungry living with Okonkwo, his three wives, and eight children.

11. Where does the powerful Oracle of the Hills, Agbala, live?
(a) In a large, handsomely endowed compound in the hills filled with the gifts from those asking for a consultation.
(b) In the treetops with all the climbing creatures of Umuofia.
(c) Through a round hole in the side of the hill leading to a dimly lit cave.
(d) Deep underground with the creatures of the soil, beneath the hills and all things that live above the ground.

12. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?
(a) They are revered as sacred above all other infants.
(b) They are drowned.
(c) They are considered good luck and raised by the priestess of the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves.
(d) They are placed in earthenware pots and thrown away in the forest.

13. Why does Nwakibie trust Okonkwo to farm his yam seeds?
(a) He always believs big, strong men are trustworthy.
(b) He figures he can charge Okonkwo for the seeds with interest if the crop failed.
(c) He can tell by looking at Okonkwo that he is a hard worker, unlike many young men of the village.
(d) He asks other people of the village if Okonkwo can be trusted.

14. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?
(a) That Unoka has offended the gods and that is why his crop fail.
(b) That Unoka sows his yams on exhausted land rather than making the effort to clear new land.
(c) That he should stay home and offer sacrifices to the gods.
(d) That he angers his ancestors and they plague his land.

15. Why do all the women abandon preparing the food for the uri and rush off to the Obierika's crop field?
(a) There is a cow loose in the field eating the crops and the women have to catch it.
(b) The locusts landed on the crops and have to be brushed off the leaves.
(c) A fire broke out in the field and the women have to stomp it out.
(d) A neighbor's child went to the field and started picking the crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?

2. When is the only time that Unkona is not haggard and mournful?

3. After speaking with the elders of nine villages, what does Okonkwo tell Ikemefuna about what is going to happen to him?

4. Where does Obierika send one of his relatives to get a fat goat to give to his in-laws during the uri?

5. What is the significance of the beating of drums in the village playground, the ilo, where all the great ceremonies and dances of the village take place?

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